Electrically-heated curling-iron.



175.787.957. PATENTED M1525, 1905.

- J. SZLLO'SY.

BLBGTRIGALLY HEATED GURLING IRON.

APPLIOATION IILED JAN.11,1905.

lnvenfr @only UNITED STATES Patented April 25, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE,

JULES SZOLLOSY, OF BRIGHTON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LOUIS HYMAN, OF BRIGHTON, ENGLAND.

ELECTRlCALLY-HEATED CURLINGwION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 787,957, dated April 25, 1905.

Application filed January Il, 1905. Serial No. 240,656. i

To all whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, JULES SZLLSY, a subject ofI the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Brighton, England, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Electrically-Heated Curling-Irons, (for which I have filed an application for patent in Great Britain, No. 18,148, dated August 2Q, 1904;) and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to improvements in electrically -heated curling, crimping', and waving irons or tongs for dressing' the hair,

and has for its object to avoid the twisting,

looping', or kinking of the current-conveying' wires leading to and from the resistance by which the heating of the tongs is effected when the tong's are in use incidental to such tongs as now constructed and enable the tongs to be freely manipulated in dressing' the hair.

To this end the invention consists in so arranging' and connecting the electrical connections of said wires at the wire-entering' end of the tong-handle (up which said connections are led to the resistance) that electrical connection of' suchparts is maintained with a slidind contact action, so that the handle and tongs, together with the resistance and its connections, can be freely manipulated in dressing the hair without affecting the electrical connection of such connections with the wires or causing the twisting, looping', or kinking of the wires.

On the accompanying drawings, Fig'ure l represents in sectional elevation electricallyheated tongs adapted with the improvements. Fig'. 2 represents, on an enlarged scale, an application of the improvements to such tongs; and Fig. 3 represents in a detached view means for electrically connecting' said connections and wires in manner aforesaid.

a represents the resistance, which is insulated from the tong by the part j; the parts forming one of said connections-say the lead to the resistance--and c the parts forming' the return connection from the resistance, such connections being insulated from each other by the parts l and from the hand holding part e by the parts f and partaking' of the movements of the tong-handle.

c2 is a flanged socket connected with but free to rotate about the handle end. It may be made of' non-conducting' material; but as represented it is formed as a concentric contact c2, adapted to enga-gc with the iianged end c' of the connection c.

f/ is a head made of' non-conducting' material adapted to screw. into the end of the socket-contact ci and fitted with a contact adapted to make contact with thc' connection end L', and with a contact c, (leading by a wire c" to a socket-contact c5, located within the head, adapted to make contact with the socketcontact c or connection end c.

/L is a plug' made of non-conducting' material and serving' to carry the current-conveying wires 3 c, the former of which projects from the plug' end and the latter of which has electrical contact with the conducting periphery c7 of the plug, which also has a catch a, adapted to engage with a corresponding part of the socket c5.

When the plug is inserted into the head, the resistance is in circuit with the electric source, and as the head is free to rotate the handle, with all said parts partaking' ofl its movements, can be manipulated as required in dressing' the hair without turning' said head or affecting' said wires.

In lieu of' the sliding contact connections being' arranged within the wire-entering' end of' the tong-handle they may be arranged in a part of' the wire outside the tong-handle.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In electrically-heated hair-dressing tongs and like devices, in combination, a resistance insulated and located within a tong, insulated electric connections leading to and from the resistance and passing' through the tong-handle, all such parts being' adapted to move together, a flanged socket connected with but free to rotate about the handle end, a nonconducting' head engaging' with said flanged socket and having contacts adapted to contact with those located in the handle, and a nonconducting plug serving to carry the currenttive electrical contacts remaining in sliding conveying wires and having contacts adapted contact, as set forth. io t0 Contact with those of the head, such hanged In witness whereoil I have hereunto Set my socket-head plug and wires being adapted to hand in the presence of two witnesses.

rnove together, the handle with the parts mov- JULES SZLLSY ing therewith and the hanged socket with the VVitneSSeS; parts moving therewith being free to rotate I CHARLES AEBREY DAYa independently of each other with the respec- ALFRED CHARLES DAY 

